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With a perfectly heart-rending groan, the unfortunate duke walked on;

but when they reached the archway directly before the rooo a step farther It was

death, anyway, and he resisted with the courage of desperation,

feeling he o in and be assassinated by his

confederates, and not even the persuasive influence of Hubert's dagger

could prevail on hie an inch farther

"Stay, then!" said the count, with perfect indifference "And, soldiers,

see that he does not escape! Now, Kingsley, let us just have a glih the party had , and had

spoken quite loudly in their little anireat was the turmoil and confusion within, that it was not heeded,

or even heard With very different feelings from those hich he had

stood there last, Sir Nor at the scene within

The crimson court was in a state of "ues was equal to Babel No longer were they languidly

pro in the cushioned chairs; but all see

to and fro in the wildest excite

them seemed to share equally with the terrified white sylphs Everybody

appeared to be talking together, and paying no attention whatever to

the sentihbors One universal centre of union alone